Damian Grant

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Biography

Damian Grant spent his teaching career at the University of Manchester, and latterly at the University of Lille 3 in France (where he now mainly lives). His early work centres on the 18th-century novel, with a book on Smollett; and he continues to publish in this area, with recent essays on Swift and Sterne. A book on Realism signalled a move to more general critical concerns, and he has latterly been more involved with 20th-century fiction (and poetry), with publications on Lawrence, Christine Brooke-Rose and Christopher Hope; Seamus Heaney and Tony Harrison. His book on Salman Rushdie was published in the British Council Writers and their Work series in 1999, a new edition of which is in preparation. Damian Grant’s poems have appeared in various journals, and a selection of his Shaiku (Shakespeare’s sonnets rewritten as haiku) appeared in PN Review in 2003. He spent a year at the University of Tunis in 1976-7, and has made shorter visits to many other countries, often at the invitation of the British Council. He has been co-chairman of the Cambridge Seminar for many years.

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Genres (in alphabetical order)

Literary criticism, Non-fiction, Poetry

Bibliography

Poetry 1970   (editor/Critical Quartlerly Poetry Supplement, no. 11)   Manchester University Press, 1970

Realism   Methuen, 1970

Poetry 1971   (editor/Critical Quarterly Poetry Supplement, no. 12)   Manchester University Press, 1971

The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom/Tobias Smollett   (editor and author of introduction)   Oxford University Press, 1971

Poetry 1972   (editor/Critical Quarterly Poetry Supplement, no. 13)   Manchester University Press, 1972

Poetry 1973   (editor/Critical Quarterly Poetry Supplement, no. 14)   Manchester University Press, 1973

Tobias Smollett: A Study in Style   Manchester University Press, 1977

Salman Rushdie   (Writers and their Work)   Northcote House in association with the British Council, 1999

Read about books by Damian Grant at encompassculture.com - the British Council's book database and global online book club

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Further reading on this site

Literature Matters September 2007
The latest issue of the British Council’s Literature Matters newsletter is now available to read online here . This issue focuses on the 30th Cambridge Seminar on Contemporary Literature, which... more...   (26/09/2007)

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Related links

http:/ / scopshop.blogspot.com

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